St-Michel et Malo

Bonjour, ça va? Pour moi, ça va mal. Pourquoi? Because I've had a cold for 5 freaking days and it won't go away and it's driving me NUTS! All I want to do is sleep, I cough all the time and I've got this flem thing going that is just disgusting. However, I refuse to spend 22£ on the doctor, so I've been sucking on Hall's coughdrops, getting aspirin from Térèse and drinking A LOT of water. Other people in my program are sick too, so luckily I have people to complain with :)

D'ACCORD, back to business. It's 8:42am here, and I'm waiting for class to start. Today's schedule looks like this, in case you were interested:

9:30am - 11:40am: Langue
11:50am - 12:45pm: Laboratoire
12:45pm - 1:45pm - Lunch
1:45pm - 2:40pm: Langue
2:45pm - 3:40pm: Comprehension Orale
3:45pm - 4:40pm: Expression Orale

In my expression orale class Katelyn (a friend and classmate of mine) have to give a fake weather report. Bah. Class is really long, and I feel like I'm in high school again. I'm just looking forward to tomorrow's excursion: L'Anjou Troglodytique! We get to go and tour these cave-type homes that people live in by carving into soft rock. After that, we are all eating at a restaurant in one of the caves, and are being served a 5-course meal...all with mushrooms as the base! Yum yum. Speaking of excursions, let me tell you about the ones I've been on already:

Puy du Fou -
Well, I can't really explain this one too well because the whole time I had NO idea what was going on. It took one hour to get there and it felt like we were way out in the country. When we pulled into the parking lot, there were a bunch of other buses too...all filled with senior citizens. lol We were seriously the youngest there. There was stadium seating, and it reminded me a lot of the memorial coliseum, except it was outside. There was a narrator, and a lot of fighting and sad music, then a lot of dancing and happy music, and the weather was FREEZING cold and windy...and I don't know. I'll have to post a video I took because the setting was a castle over a fake lake that horses would walk across and yeah...I'm really at a loss for words on this one.

Mont St-Michel et St Malo -
This I can tell you about! On Sunday we went to Mont St-Michel and St-Malo, and it was terrific! Here are some pictures:

This is the view from the top. Isn't it amazing? St-Michel is an island that's surrounded by sand and a small amount of water. Way back when, you would not be able to reach the island because at high tide the little strip of land was covered in water.

Funny story: After touring the church and walking around St-Michel, we all sat down to eat lunch. There were seagulls all around us, and a classmate named James kept throwing bread on the ground so the seagulls could get it but it was so windy that the seagulls couldn't get the bread and ended up just floating above it. I think the birds were mad that James was teasing them, because they attempted to poop on him but landed on my baguette instead! I saw something drop and looked down to see my baguette covered in poop....alors, I screamed and threw it on the ground. The funniest part about it was that it got ONLY on my sandwich and nowhere else...not on my hand that was holding the sandwich, my clothes, nothing! lol I was laughing so hard.

After that little experience, we headed to St Malo and when the sun finally came out I took some great pictures:

It's too bad the sun came out at the end of the trip, otherwise I would have been all over that beach! St-Malo is a walled city, and so we took some time walking around the outside...

...and then went down to the streets and window-shopped for awhile. We also got crepes...yum yum! St-Malo was very beautiful, but very expensive as well.

Well, I must go finish up a project now, but until later!

Things to know:
*Don't piss off seagulls...they'll get ya back.